Aleksandr Borisovich Matveyev (; 26 January 1926 — 22 January 2008) was a
Russian
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theater artist,
painter
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, professor and a specialist in the field of architectural and theatrical lighting.
Biography
Aleksandr Borisovich Matveyev was born in the family of the famous Soviet
zoologist
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Boris Stepanovich Matveev. After graduation from a secondary school, he at the same time enrolled into two universities:
Moscow Power Engineering Institute
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(graduated in 1949) and
Moscow Art Theater School
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After graduation, he came to work in the
Moscow Art Theater
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, but soon, in 1951, he was sent to work for the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army. During his time in this theater he took part in staging of more than twenty performances not only as an artist-director, but also as a lighting engineer. Among his performances "Do not Have a Penny but Suddenly Hit the Jackpot" (by
Alexander Ostrovsky
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Eduardo De Filippo
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), and other plays. He also collaborated with other Soviet theaters.
Since the 1960s he started teaching. For many years he had read a course of lectures at the
Moscow Power Engineering Institute
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.
Aleksandr Matveyev also showed himself as an outstanding landscape painter. He painted landscapes of European part of Russia, the
Caucasus
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, the
Crimea
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and many other places. He took part in many art exhibitions.
He died on 22 January 2008 and was buried at
Kuntsevo Cemetery
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in
Moscow
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.
Literature
* Московская энциклопедия. Том 1: Лица Москвы. Книга 6: А-Я. Дополнения. — М.: ОАО «Московские учебники», 2014